MARY:
Beloved of Jesus,
Today I come to share with you what my Heart bears after hearing what my Jesus confided to me concerning what He is encountering within His Holy Church.
Oh, if only you knew how many tears from the hearts of sacerdotal, seminarian, and religious souls have risen to Heaven. Those tears are gathered in the mercy of God and united to the prayers of the saints and to my own maternal Heart.
Oh, how the Holy Heart of my Son is deeply grieved by the persecution of many of His beloved religious souls. He sorrows as He witnesses these souls constantly weary and discouraged!
Many have been misunderstood, others treated unjustly, and others have withdrawn from their vocation or are contemplating it under the pressure of the world.
There is a spiritual battle surrounding every rectory, every monastery, every convent, and every religious community.
My Jesus mourns... and He mourns so profoundly for the lack of faithful love He encounters among the growing number of souls who abandon the vocation He entrusted to them — many whom He had lovingly called to serve Him in the priesthood, in religious orders, and in the consecrated life, and for whom He lovingly prepared His plans.
Many who are called to remain close to my Son through the gift of religious life are leaving, abandoning both Him and the mission He prepared for them. They face countless temptations, frustrations, trials, and persecutions of every kind.
Some abandon their vocation before they have even made their perpetual vows.
Such loving souls withdraw from their communities because of inadequate spiritual discernment and direction; the hidden sacrifices of religious life; the darkness encountered even within these sanctuaries, where the enemy seeks to sow division and oppression through the weaknesses and failings of some souls; and above all, because of the struggle in which they fail to understand the mystical path to sanctity that my Son desires to lead them upon.
They wonder why, after receiving so many blessings and experiencing His great love inundating their souls, they must pass through so many hardships, sufferings, and countless spiritual trials. They struggle to understand why, after that first outpouring of love and the sensible graces, like cherished kisses from their heavenly Bridegroom, they seem to experience the loss—or rather, the withdrawal—of those consolations.
Oh, children,
Have you not realized that by following my Son you are helping to renew the face of the earth through His Holy Spirit, and that your fidelity threatens the forces of darkness and their evil efforts to lead souls away from God the Father, to spread error, and to distort the holy truth of who you are?
Can you not see how the enemy seeks to spread his poisonous fumes throughout the earth and entice the weak, blinding them to their true royal inheritance, as though he could offer a better way than the one my Son has shown you—a way that promises happiness but can never satisfy, unlike the path that leads to true joy and the eternal blessedness prepared for you?
Oh, dear ones, if you would but grasp the things from on high, you would know that God's love and His grace are never lacking to those who remain open to Him. Though sensible consolations may be withdrawn for a time, so that your faith may be purified and strengthened, His presence and His faithful help never cease. It is only by freely turning away from Him that a soul distances itself from His grace.
The trials themselves can be seen as blessings if you understand the wisdom that lies behind every cross and every challenge you face on earth.
Oh children of the Valley…
My Son never abandons a soul He has called, though the soul must remain faithful and free to receive Him still. The dryness and the dark night that come upon a soul are purifying, not punishing.
How I long for my children to know the way of littleness, and the counsel my Son left to embrace it.
For these are the very trials you perhaps needed , trials within which my Jesus have laboured to bring you into the trust He desires of you , and the sanctity He envisioned for you.
All that a soul lives for my Son, once He has called it His own, can become graces for sanctity, if received in trust.
I ask you, my dear children, to pray for the gift of understanding, the gifts of discernment , of perseverance and for all religious and consecrated souls throughout the world!
Dear ones, I counsel you...remain faithful to Jesus till the end and wherever He has placed you, remembering the day you accepted His love and His mercy, and He brought you out of darkness into His marvellous light.
I bless you with my motherly love!